JaGa

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I'm a chemical engineer turned software consultant turned scientist turned medical student. I grew up in rural southern Ohio, and spent 10 years or so in beautiful California. I later worked as an independent software consultant in the United Kingdom, including about a year in London. What an amazing, wonderful city! Recently, I graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Molecular Genetics and completed a study uncovering GenX pollution in Appalachian Ohio. Now, I'm beginning a new career, entering the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College to become a doctor.

On Wikipedia[edit]

I'm less active these days, but still check in on a regular basis.

Some of my contributions before my new role include:

Disambiguation, disambiguation, and still more disambiguation. I've focused most of my Toolserver work to the Disambiguation pages with links project, culminating in the Monthly Dab Challenge, a friendly contest to see who can fix the most disambig links in a month. The contest has been a huge success, greatly reducing the number of links to disambiguation pages. It is my conviction that we can overcome this huge backlog - eventually.

Vandal fighting, using a cocktail of Huggle, Twinkle, and popups to battle the swarm.

Contributing to Wikiproject Chemicals, creating SVGs of chemical structures from suggestions at Chemical images that should be in SVG format. My favorite work, Apamin (a component in bee venom), is to the right.

Taking photos for Wikipedia articles, usually images of large buildings or bridges that need to be stitched into a panorama. I use a Canon EOS 20D, stitch my panoramas using PTGui, and clean them up in Photoshop CS3. You can see some of my favorite contributions on my Commons page. To the left is the New River Gorge Bridge - a picture that earned featured status for Wikipedia.

On Tool Labs[edit]

I am also a developer for Tool Labs, which is a lot of fun. Here's my released tools:

Disambiguation project

Disambiguation pages with links - Lists all disambiguation pages by number of article links to that disambig page. Updated daily.
Disambiguation link count - Up-to-the-minute lookup of the number of links to a single disambiguation page.
Pages with links to disambiguation pages - Lists all articles by number of links to disambiguation pages. Updated daily.
List of disambiguation pages linked by an article - Up-to-the-minute lookup of the list of disambiguation pages linked by a single article.

Uncategorized Articles Project

Uncategorized articles - Lists all uncategorized articles, including articles that link only to redlink categories. Hidden categories are ignored. Updated daily.
Untagged uncategorized articles - List of up to 5000 untagged uncategorized articles that can be updated on command. Also offers a bot-friendly article list generator.
Categorized articles - Articles are tagged as uncategorized but do have at least one non-hidden category. Updated daily.

Move patrol

Move watch - Moves grouped by user within the last 24 hours, day, or week. Updated hourly.

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user had an account on the Wikimedia Toolserver.

This user runs a bot, DPL bot (contribs). It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.

vn-37

This user page has been vandalized 37 times.

This user uses Huggle to deal with vandalism.

90,000+

This user has made more than 90,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.

This user is one of the 400 most active English Wikipedians of all time.

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons.

This editor uses AutoWikiBrowser to automate tedious repetitive tasks.

This user supported Barack Obama for President in 2008 and 2012.

This user is a cat lover.

This user is an art lover.

This user enjoys photography.

This user enjoys skygazing and astronomy.

This user has visited 40 of the 50 United States.

PRO

This user is a progressive.

This user is interested in environmentalism.

This user supports recycling.

This user regards Colony Collapse Disorder as a serious problem.

This user wants to stop
global warming.

This user supports the
use of green energy.

This user supports
universal health care.

This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.

ORG

This user would rather eat
organic food
than tampered-with food

This user prefers dark chocolate

This user prefers
New York pizza

This user loves the Spring.

This user knows the difference between beauty and trash.

met?

This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the United States, cannot relate to them.

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This user loves problem solving.

SCI FI

This user loves science fiction.

This user is a fan of
The Lord of the Rings.

This user knows it's better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

Dirk Gently

This user believes in the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things"

D	This user loves the Discworld series. But wouldn't want to visit Ankh-Morpork. Ever.

Melange

This user believes that the spice must flow.

This user knows
The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

ASoIaF

This user is reading A Song of Ice and Fire and considers it a fine example of high fantasy.

Achewood

This user knows that Achewood is a momentary diversion on the road to the grave.

This user reads S i n f e s t.

C&H

This user reads Calvin and Hobbes.

This user is against DRM.

This user is interested in politics.

This user prefers Google over Yahoo.

This user contributes using
Adobe Photoshop.

This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.

This user likes Pixar and its films.

Pulp Fiction

This user knows that in France, they call a Quarter Pounder a Royale With Cheese because of the metric system.

This user remembers, remembers, the fifth of November.

FAUX NEWS

This user believes that Fox News is not fair or balanced.

PBS

This user supports PBS.

This user enjoys classical music (especially with Violin).

This user enjoys rock music.

This user loves his
Coat Of Many Colors.

This user believes that the meaning of life is to live a happy life.

This user does not trust electronic voting machines.


	This user supports a Free Tibet

This user knows that there are
654,965 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.^†

This user wants the World Trade Center rebuilt as it was.

This user misses Pluto. May its planethood rest in peace.

This user is interested in Buddhism.

This user is interested in Taoism.

This user respects the beliefs and religions of others.

This user is a Libran.

OAK

This user is a fan of the
Oakland Athletics

This user knows that American football is the only true football.

This user is from Ohio.